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Title: Enforcing some rules.
To-date LankanTorrents had no enforcement of common BitTorrent tracker guidelines, such as minimum share ratio etc. This was occurring even though members were informed of an acceptable ratio since this site went live.
Recent developments (mass of dead torrents etc) and member feedback via the poll have led the administration to start enforcing minimum ratio rules.
As you can see from the poll to the left, a majority of members want HIGHER DOWNLOAD SPEEDS on their torrent downloads. This can only be achieved if the members contribute by seeding downloaded content. This doesn't seem to be happening now, and that has lead to horrible download speeds and a lot of dead torrents.
So we're taking a small step towards weeding out the leechers and keeping in the active members.
Members with a share ratio of less than 0.2 will be stripped of download priviledges, and then banned.
We will start enforcement of this new rule exactly a week from now. That's 19th of August 2006, so you have time to upload any torrents you've already downloaded.
Pls. remember, this is for the good of the community. 
Happy torrenting. |
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Title: Sri Lankan TV show rips
We will be uploading local tv shows/teledramas/cricket matches etc etc to the tracker. What we need you'll to do is tell us what you'll want to watch, and we will rip and upload for you.
You can either post your requests on the forum, or email me at webmaster@lankantorrents.com and let me know what you want and we will try to get it up asap.
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Title: Reaching the 1000 member mark
We hit 1000 registered members today. Is this an achievement? Definitely! The question is, who helped LankanTorrents achieve this? No, not the 1000th member who happened across this tracker, but all of you who have been contributing in your many ways to help keep this tracker alive. All of you who have been uploading new content, everyone who's been seeding almost constantly for others, and even those who work against us, indirectly giving us the strength to make this community bigger, stronger and better.
So a big thank you goes out to all the (active) members of LankanTorrents .
Here's to another 1000 members 
Talk about it on the forum. |
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Title: LT Streaming Radio - for the metalheads?
 Is it just me, or is 90% of Sri Lanka's web presence biased towards hip hop? Centigradz this.. iraj that. Don't get me wrong - there's nothing wrong with Sri Lankan hip hop, and infact I think it's at a pretty good standard, international even... some of the talent is amazing. But it seems all the startup SL online communities that are popping up all over the web are just feeding off this popularity to the point where all other genres such as rock or metal are totally forgotten about. Communities with member counts going into the 10 thousands have *empty* forum threads discussing SL rock and metal - whats going on? Is it that these communities attract *only* hip hops fans since they're built around the genre? Probably - so what happens to the genuine Sri Lankan rock/metal fans?
Enough ranting - let me get to the subject of my post. We at LankanTorrents want to start a streaming radio station, where anyone can listen to SL originality via the net. It's a radio station, with a DJ, and music - but it's online. We'd like to stick to the genre of rock in general - the specifics will be laid out later.
What we need is for you to voice your opinion. The poll is on the left hand side. Go ahead, start voting .
Discuss this on the forum. |
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Title: April Rock Saturday 2006
 The monthly Rock Saturday falls on the 29th of April, and as usual will be held at the Womens International Hall.
We will be present to video it for those who can't make it.
If all goes well, we should have performances by Stigmata, Paranoid Earthling, Cold Armour, Nemesis, Dilan, Fallen Grace and Picasso Recess.
We *do* have a backlog of videos that need to be published - we're hoping to make all of them available during the month of May. |
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Title: Suba aluth avuruddak weva!
After some downtime due to security issues, LankanTorrents is back. Our apologies for any inconvenience... if you were in the middle of downloading any files, you should be able to continue your downloads if there are any seeders left.
All uploaded torrents are still available and can be downloaded. I kindly request all seeders to continue seeding as before.
The tracker has been updated to a new version and you will notice a few small layout changes - most notably the torrent details now open as a page and not as a popup. Member ranks have messed up - so we're depending on you to inform us if you had a higher rank than you have now so that we can make any necessary changes. Other changes are minor and won't affect members much.
Suba aluth avuruddak weva! |
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Title: IRC channel for LankanTorrents?
 Internet Relay Chat. It's a place that members can log into and converse with moderators and other members of LankanTorrents. The human being is a social creature after all!
So let me know what you'll think - voice what you're thinking by voting on the poll, "IRC Channel for LankanTorrents?"
If you've never taken part in the poll, we'd appreciate if you did for this one and... it's on the left of the screen, scroll down slightly. |
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Title: Is Chaos Really Silent?
 We have a little trailer which will serve as a sneak preview of what the Silent Chaos Serpentine Launch concert video will be like.
There are two filetypes available, SVCD quality which is 16MB and a WMV which is 1MB. They are both the same video, but the WMV is of much less quality - easier on a slow connection.
How do I download only one file from this bundle? |
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Title: The time between event and video upload
 The 25th of February was a reminder to us all as to why Stigmata are called the metal gods of Sri Lanka. The launch of Silent Chaos Serpentine took place at M.K.O.P to a sellout crowd.
LankanTorrents was there to video the launch, and we're working as hard as possible to edit and publish the video online ASAP - we have more than 8 hours of video to sift through and put together before we can make it available, so bear with us.
We might upload a little something  to keep you'll occupied till we can publish the full video - so watch this space! |
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Title: Stigmata - Silent Chaos Serpentine
 The metal giants of Sri Lanka will be releasing their second album - Silent Chaos Serpentine on the 25th of February 2006 at M.K.O.P.
If you want to be blown away by the live antics of Suresh, Tenny, Andrew, Vije and Ranil make sure you get there by 8.30 PM with 600 bux in hand, which will buy you their album as well as entrance into M.K.O.P.
LankanTorrents will be there, filming and recording throughout to bring those unfortunate souls who wont be able to make it, a peice of the action as downloadable video.
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Title: How do I upload?
 That's a question a lot of you have been asking lately. So here's the promised upload tutorial.
Visit the How To page to check it out.
Hopefully, we will have an interactive tutorial soon.
Happy uploading! |
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Title: Let's throw a Tantrum
 The launch of Tantrum's first EP took place at the Cafe De Artiste on the 3rd of February 2006.
Nemesis and Sword of the Spirit opened for Tantrum, and the stars of the night dished out some fantastic original talent as well as covers of their favorite bands.
We were there to capture all of the launch for those unfortunate enough to have not been there to view.
Thanks and kudos goes out to the band for allowing the launch to be put up for download on LankanTorrents, thus paving the way for an era where Sri Lankan talent can be shared without geographic boundaries.
The video will be completed and uploaded, according to our calculations, sometime next week. So till then sit tight, grab some of our other content and watch this space! |
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Title: Tantrum EP Launch
TNL Onstage 2005 winners, Tantrum will be launching their debut EP - "The Destruction Begins" at the Cafe De Artiste on Friday the 3rd February 2005... and LankanTorrents will be videoing every minute of it.
Be there to witness the unleashing of The Destruction, or if you can't make it, expect to see it on here for download.
Visit Tantrum on the web. |
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Title: Uploads
 We've opened up the uploads for all members. Anyone with content can now make it available to everyone without having to go through a moderator. Of course any unwanted material will catch the eye of our moderator team, which just increased by another two members.
A uploads guide will be written soon.
Happy Uploading!  |
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Title: New Years gift
We come bearing gifts! We've got the TNL Onstage 2005 Semi Finals on tape, and now it's available for download. Go get it .
For the noobs, we've taken yet another step to make this site noob friendly - an interactive flash how-to guide has been added to the front page. |
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Title: Seasons Greetings
| Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all |
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Title: VIP membership up for grabs
 VIP membership on LankanTorrents up for grabs - and it comes with perks! Read all the way down for the goodies. Here's the deal. To have the prestigious 'Very Important Peer' status bestowed upon you, a few criteria have to be fulfilled. But before we get to the 'rules', you'll have to meet certain minimum requirements. They are as follows.
You will have to...
1) Have an internet connection with an upload rate of over 128 Kilo Bits per second. That means if you can upload at a constant rate of about 16 Kilo Bytes per second you're good. Anything faster is obviously welcome.
2) Be able to seed for long periods of time. Long periods = More than half a day, everyday. Would be preferable if you keep your PC running 24/7... no, it won't blow up. This isn't strictly enforced.
3) Be dedicated. Don't be lazy to open your BitTorrent client and seed. It's not a big thing to ask of you.
If you meet these requirements, read on.
The big boss rule - Share Ratio
Members with a share ratio of 1.5 and above are eligible. Also if you're over 1.0, we will consider.
Any members with the above fullfilled will be contacted and offered VIP'ship.
"So why would I want to be a VIP?"
Well, firstly you're doing a great community service, and helping Sri Lanka get a foothold on the internet by contributing to local technologies. That and having a nice red ' ' next to your name makes you feel special. If these don't stimulate the uploader in you, we have some bribes as well.
> Free Web Space! How much space? Depending on how much we like you, it will be between 250MB to 500MB.
> You will also get your very own http://yourname.lankantorrents.com subdomain with...
> FTP access. Funky eh?
It works wonders as a pickup line - "Hey baby, check out my LankanTorrents subdomain  "
So start working on your share ratio now! We'll be watching you. 
If you're interested, PM or email the admin and you'll be given further details
Note: LankanTorrents will not be held liable for any damages caused by use of pickup lines related to LT subdomains. |
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Title: Selecting a specific file
 You might have noticed some torrents containing multiple files - music torrents which have multiple mp3's or music video torrents that have multiple video files. So what do you do if you want to download only one file from the bundle? Simple. Most torrent clients have a feature that allows you to select and deselect files from bundled torrents. This explanation is on how to do it with BitComet.
Note: If you have no idea what this means, you either probably have to read the BitTorrent tutorial or you don't need to read this. Move on. If not, please do read since this will save you a lot of bandwidth and frustration.
More on the How To page. |
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Title: November Rock Saturday
Our "crew" was there to get it on tape, and we've got all of it (except Dylan Jayakody) for you. This was the last Rock Saturday for this year, and the event ended with a Jam with members from all the bands doing a little bit of what they're good at. The videos are being edited and uploaded slowly... but surely.
Enjoy! |
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Title: Comments and Forum
I ask all members who've downloaded a file to leave a comment on the torrent details page. You can write about the quality etc of the torrent so that other members will know what to expect. Also you can rate the torrent using the drop down rating system.
The Forum can be used to discuss the content - artist/band and performance etc. |
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Title: Content Partner
We are proud to announce our partnership with www.SLTrix.com. They will act as our content partner - they have content and we have the means to distribute it for them... so it works for both of us .
This means, all those who wanted something other than rock videos can have what they asked for . Stay tuned, as we have almost 200GB worth of Sri Lankan content to be made available for you. |
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Title: Oct Rock Saturday Torrents now available
The videos have landed! The video has been edited and each artist/band's performance will have one .wmv file dedicated to it. I have started uploading the videos - probably one video a day, or increase the time gaps to ease the load on seeders (and maybe tease those who begged for a fast upload  )
Enjoy! |
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Title: Acoustic Saturday
This times Rock Saturday was a teeny bit laid back compared to the usual loud n heavy rhythms everyone's used to. We managed to get most of the performances on video.
Performances we got on video -
Most of Lein and Dylan, Tantrum, WhirlWind, Stigmata, most of Paranoid Earthlings and joint performance with Stigmata, Double bass clips of Siblings of Hatred.
What we missed -
Dylans dolphins cry, the whole of Insanity, Some songs of Paranoid Earthlings (69.. sorry we had battery problems), Siblings of Hatred.
The tapes have been submitted for encoding and will be edited and uploaded soon - patience. |
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Title: October Rock Saturday
 October Rock Saturday to be held on the 29th at Womens International Hall. Expect to see Tantrum, Siblings of Hatred, Paranoid Earthlings, WhirlWind and ofcourse Stigmata. If all goes smooth, we should have videos of each performance up by Sunday. Stay tuned.
From the Sunday Observer (link):
Gear yourself for a gigantic show with some of the country's best talent ready to perform with great sounds and lighting to create an ambience unlike anything else in the country. from the raw metallic sounds of Tantrum, to the dark, brutal sounds of Siblings of Hatred the night looks very promising indeed.
Add an insane touch of in the form of Insanity the acoustic genius Dylan Jayakody with another acoustic spot by Lien and with a special Classical Rock guest performance by Tilak, Primal, Kamal and Jude the smooth hard rock groove Paranoid Earthling from Kandy Shrirock specialists Whirlwind and the architects of chaos Stigmata adding there energy to the already fantastic mix of talent. |
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Title: 50 Members
We've reached 50 members. Yea yea not a big deal, but it's a tiny landmark in the journey towards being big. Content has been really slow since we went semi-public but we plan on speeding it up in the near future.
Our 50th members is... *drum roll* waran *applause* Congrats and thanks for joining.
Also, the contact page has been set up for anyone who wants to contact us. |
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Title: Sharing your .torrent file
| Please do NOT share your torrent file with anyone else. Your torrent file is unique to your membership on LankanTorrents. Full explanation in the FAQ. |
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Title: FAQ written
DON'T KNOW HOW TO DOWNLOAD?
The Frequently Asked Questions page has been written. It will be continually updated over time. It should answer the most basic of questions a user will have, anything not in the FAQ can be be asked directly on the help forum.
Read the FAQ |
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Title: RSS feed added
You can now subscribe to the RSS feed and get notified each time new torrents are added or a new post is created in the forums.
LankanTorrents RSS feed
EDIT: RSS feed includes only torrent files now. |
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Title: Forums are active...
The forum has been set up. So far three sections are available.
General, where you can discuss anything you want... 
Torrent Discussions is where you discuss the torrents posted for download.
Help section will have the FAQ and will be the place where you should post any questions about the site. Please read the FAQ first.
Post away |
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Title: LankanTorrents is born
Greetings all. LankanTorrents has finally settled with a tracker source.
But it's not ready yet! There will be a few layout and forum changes and some testing done before we spread the news about the site.
Thanks to all the testers. Oh yea, *hopefully* this time you wont have to keep signing up to test torrents. Thanks to all the testers. Oh yea, *hopefully* this time you wont have to keep signing up to test torrents. Thanks to all the testers. Oh yea, *hopefully* this time you wont have to keep signing up to test torrents. Thanks to all the testers. Oh yea, *hopefully* this time you wont have to keep signing up to test torrents. Thanks to all the testers. Oh yea, *hopefully* this time you wont have to keep signing up to test torrents. Thanks to all the testers. Oh yea, *hopefully* this time you wont have to keep signing up to test torrents. Thanks to all the testers. Oh yea, *hopefully* this time you wont have to keep signing up to test torrents. |
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We welcome our newest member: gnanakad
